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    Response to Mya Angelou’s "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Mya Angelou’s "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is a poem featured in her autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". Her book reflects the struggle she overcame as a young African American woman in the United States during‚ and before the civil rights movement. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is about the life of a free "bird" vs. the life of a caged and captured "bird". Despite the captured bird having been captured rather than

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    There Were None” helped me learn how to find theme using textual evidence. This book had an overbearing theme of death‚ darkness‚ and fear. There were several key points in the story that showcased the theme well. The storm that occurred while the deaths started to become more frequent really made the theme stand out to me the most due to the desperation of the characters. Reading “Cask of Amontillado” helped me learn how to use context clues to my advantage. Some of the details were unclear

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    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with fearful trill of the things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the

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    Three primary problems "cage" Maya Angelou in her autobiographical book I Know why the Caged Bird Sings. The most pressing of these issues was probably the fact that Maya lived in the highly segregated south. Another factor of her imprisonment was because Maya‚ also known as Marguerite‚ was a social outcast‚ with very few friends other then relatives. Finally‚ the main character was entrapped because of her unusual sexual exposure. Over all‚ the highly segregated life she led‚ her exclusion socially

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    15 October 2012 I know why the caged bird sings By Maya Angelou The novel I know why the caged bird sings is about the triumphs of a young woman. Maya Angelou or Marguerite Ann Johnson is the main character of the book and she endures quite a few problems. She is a dynamic character through her changes in heart‚ faith‚ and power. Maya Angelou is a woman who was constantly beat down for being African American and for her social class. This isn’t fair but it was the way the world functioned back

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    Know Why the Cage Bird Sings I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings‚ a 1979 movie directed by Fielder Cook‚ is a renowned autobiographical account of Maya Angelou’s youth. Based on Maya Angelou’s best selling novel‚ this film takes place during the Great Depression. The story takes place in a bigoted‚ vicious town in Stamps‚ Arkansas where Maya and her brother‚ Bailey‚ grow up with their grandmother and uncle. The family is forced to deal with racism from the KKK as well as other whites in the society

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    If I had to imagine my life as a homeless dog or cat my typical day would be waking up hopeless by just waking up all over again with that same feeling of all my pain‚ being lonely‚ scared‚ cold‚ or maybe thirsty and hungry also wandering around and look for attention .This would also depend on whether I live in a busy city or countryside because as a cat for example living in the busy city I would probably have an awful‚ hunger-filled day because without water and food I could cause a

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    Finishing Schools: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings “Negro girls in small Southern towns‚ whether poverty-stricken or just munching along on a few of life’s necessities‚ were given as extensive and irrelevant preparations for adulthood as rich white girls shown in magazines. Admittedly the training was not the same.” In her excerpt from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ Marguerita Johnson recalls a time when she had to deal with racist‚ how she was treated and what was expected

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    and Frost both write about birds. Compare and contrast two poems‚ one by each poet‚ taking account of the methods (the situation of the speaker‚ and the form‚ structure and language‚ including imagery and tones) which each poet uses to write about birds. Both Edward Thomas and Robert Frost write about birds in their poems ‘The Owl’ and ‘The Oven Bird’. ‘The Oven Bird’ by Robert Frost was written in 1916 and published in the Mountain Interval. It is a poem about an Oven Bird who sits on a tree on a

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    <br> <br><b>2. Why do white people seem un-real to Marguerite? </b> <br>She said white people ’s feet were too small‚ and their skin was see-through‚ and they walked on their heels‚ not on the balls of their feet. <br> <br><b>3. Explain how their education in Stamps prepared Marguerite and Bailey. How is school different in St. Louis from the one they attended in Stamps? </b> <br>Marguerite and Bailey were prepared for school because of their education in Stamps. They learned arithmetic through working

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